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Letters
...Thanks for all the letters-it lets us know just how many welders there are in the homebuilding community.-Ed. Totally Tubular I loved Bob’s article [“Tips for Tube Notching,” December 2014]....
Tomasulo RV-4
Tony Tomasulo’s Rv-4 after 12 1/2 years of building. It’s powered by an O-360-A1A new Lycoming with roller lifters with a fixed pitch Sensenich prop, equipped with Dynon EMS and...
2015 Engine Buyer’s Guide: Traditional and Conversion Engines
Plenty of thought goes into building an airplane, and many of those thoughts concern engines. If “What airplane do I want to build?” is the first question in homebuilding, then...
Deciding What to Build
...to build, we need to understand why you would like to build. What are your goals for building an airplane? It’s very important that you are candid with yourself at...
The New Guy
...you like building, and feel pretty good about the accomplishment, then build on! You should be building because you like to build. So, when will it fly? 5. Budget money:...
Ask the DAR
...do you think is the most common error you see as people are building their aircraft? Answer: On metal aircraft, by far the most common problem I run across is...
Legalities
...a homebuilt during the building process. While the partially built airplane won’t be destroyed in a flying accident, it can still come to grief—hangars do burn, hangar roofs do collapse...
Getting a Good Start
...to decide if building a Sonex is right for you, and if the airplane is something that you’ll enjoy. If you wait until your airplane is almost ready to fly,...
Editor’s Log
...a cross-country cruiser. They might be building a basic airframe that they desire to use as a test bed for new ideas (and new powerplants). All of these are legitimate...
Backcountry Fox
...building wind, we climbed into one of his two identical Kitfox Super Sports and prepared to take off. We talked about the difference in operating Rotax engines versus the Lycomings...
In Case You Missed It
Wind Tunnel
This month we use the accumulated flight-test data to determine what exactly is causing the unacceptable flying qualities of the airplane so that the best way to fix the problem can be identified;
Wind Tunnel
This month Barnaby Wainfan turns his attention to the control system and how various aspects such as linkages, the elevator planform and tail aspect ratio, and trailing-edge treatments affect pitch control.
